Why is there so much oil in the desert?

Not necessarily, a lot of it is not under the desert, but there are a lot of deserts in the Middle East, and there is a lot of oil, which blinds you. As long as the conditions are right, oil can be formed there.

There is a lot of oil in the Middle East, because in ancient times, all kinds of organic matter such as animals, plants, especially lower animals and plants such as algae, bacteria, mussel shells, fish, etc., were buried in the sinking and anoxic bays, lagoons, deltas, lakes and other places after many physical and chemical reactions, and finally gradually formed into oil.

An oil exploration company in Houston, USA, has proposed a new theory: all oil is generated from ancient rocks, not from the decomposition of dead animals or plants and other organisms buried in the ground, as is commonly believed. This view was endorsed by three Russian counterparts, but as soon as it was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, it caused widespread controversy.

Kenny, the head of the company, believes that the geothermal heat released from the fractures of the rock formations has caused the carbide inorganic matter and water buried at a depth of 100 kilometers underground to produce hydrocarbons under the action of high temperatures and pressures, and all the oil is formed in this way, and there are still a large number of undiscovered ore sites.

Petroleum geographers have partially embraced this point of view. Mike Luwan of the U.S. Geographic Survey said there was no doubt that some of the oil came from inorganics. However, he strongly disagrees with Kenny's assertion that oil could not have been formed by organic matter in shallow rocks.

Brian Brister of the New Jersey Department of Minerals and Mineral Resources argues that Kenny's views are a defiance of organic chemistry theory and decades of research in the field of petroleum geochemistry.

At present, the generally accepted theory is that the organic matter buried in the ground in ancient times that was not decomposed by bacteria evolved over millions of years under certain temperature and pressure conditions to form oil that can be extracted. Microorganisms convert the organic matter below the earth's surface into hydrocarbons, and the remaining organic matter buried deep underground underneath the earth undergoes a complex chemical reaction at temperature and pressure to form oil. Typically commercially valuable fields are located at depths of 500 to 700 meters below the surface, with the deepest wells at depths of about 6 kilometers.

And further down 10 km, there will be no oil or gas at all.

Kenny argues that low-pressure conditions formed at the shallow surface are more likely to produce methane than heavier hydrocarbons. He obtained heavy hydrocarbons when iron oxide, pebbles and water were heated to 900 degrees Celsius in the laboratory. According to him, stable oil can only be formed at 30,000 atmospheres, that is, below 100 kilometers underground.

However, even if Kenny's theory of oil formation is only partially correct, it may open a new door to exploration in oil exploration.

Because there is still a lot of debate internationally about the origin of oil, there are many kinds of questions for you:

The most common theory is that oil is the biological deposits of ancient times, and the climate state in ancient times was different from today, perhaps the desert of today is the ocean or forest in ancient times.

As you imagine, it's not hard to understand.

But I have a question about this: the amount of oil extracted now is not possible for all the animals and plants in the world to be formed at a certain time, let alone the oil reserves in a certain part. This argument is too difficult to establish.

Another way to say it is fishy

He believed that the earth was a living organism and that oil was the excrement of the metabolism (nuclear reaction) of life on earth. It is radioactive. Therefore, if it is a living oil field, its surface will be barren and barren.

The main culprit is the rock-desertified oil, which is the result of the radiation and degeneration of the oil.

Oil is a tree!! The trees died and were buried in the ground, and the ground became a desert.

In fact, there is a certain reason for the non-exploitation of oil in China's deserts, not because everyone thinks that it is not enough to use the value, but because the manpower and financial resources consumed in the mining process are too large.

Most creatures don't survive long in the desert and then die.

If you die and bury it in the ground, it will become oil.

The desert is a symbol of heat, drought, intense evaporation; Deserts, Gobi, salt flats are its characteristics.

Deserts did not come into being overnight, but over a long geological period. The symbols and characteristics of today's desert have accompanied the formation of the desert throughout its life. Once the desert loses its heat, drought and strong evaporation, a large amount of water is obtained, the desert soil is improved, the Gobi is buried, the salt flats become saline-alkali land, and the desert disappears.

This illustrates the fact that the desert that can be seen today has been hot, arid, and intensely evaporative since its inception.

The heat, drought and strong evaporation of the desert embryonic stage are the main reasons for the formation of so much oil and gas under the desert.

Deserts were created on ancient crusts, and they have also undergone crustal subsidence, uplift, and sea retreat. Strong evaporation is the root cause of the enrichment of large amounts of organic matter. It is an indisputable fact that organic matter exists in terrestrial water and seawater.

The strong evaporation of the desert primal bottom caused a large amount of terrestrial water and seawater to evaporate in large quantities, resulting in a steady stream of terrestrial water and seawater being re-injected into the desert primordial bottom, and all the organic matter in the water was enriched in the desert primordial bottom without any loss. The enrichment of organic matter in the desert is high-speed, efficient, dynamic, and predatory. Especially in the marine phase, the seawater source is continuously evaporated and continuously injected, and a large amount of organic matter is continuously enriched in the desert under the "waterwheel" (the theory of organic matter enrichment of ocean currents).

A large amount of organic matter is generated by the geological action of so much oil and gas.

You think, the salt content in the sea is about 36. Do you calculate how many tons of seawater it takes to evaporate to form a huge layer of evaporative salt? Countless tons, countless tons of inorganic salts in seawater; Algae, plankton, dead organisms, organic acids, organic salts, gums, complexes, chelates, etc., are all enriched in arid salt basins.

To put it in layman's terms, the above process is the same as our kettle and boiler that have been used for a long time and grow scale.

In the Middle East, the Persian Gulf basin produces so much oil and gas from countless algae, plankton, dead organisms, organic acids, organic salts, colloids, complexes, chelates and other organic matter in the desert bottom.

Originally, a large area of thick plant layer on the surface (the highest Cretaceous ancient trees could reach about 100 meters) and all the animals and organisms in it, all of which were under the combined action of high temperature and high pressure of saline-alkali cover and a large amount of water, eventually evolved into oil and natural gas resources. Therefore, in this way, there must be oil and natural gas under the desert, and the reserves are naturally very rich.

Oil & Gas**After the death of microorganisms in organic matter, oceans or lakes, their remains are quickly buried to prevent the decomposition of bacteria, and when deposited to a certain thickness, they are converted into oil and gas under the right temperature and pressure conditions. However, practice has proved that the theory of organic genesis of oil and gas is not absolute. The theory of inorganic genesis argues:

Oil and gas are formed by the reaction of carbonized inorganics, and L. Gocher's exposition is the most convincing. He believes that carbon dioxide and hydrogen in the primitive atmosphere first react to form carbon monoxide and water, and then carbon monoxide and water are similar to the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis reaction model to inorganically synthesize various hydrocarbons, when the temperature is 180 400, especially in the presence of nickel, iron, carbon dioxide, hydrocarbons of various boiling points and a small amount of organic matter such as acids, ketones, aldehydes, esters, alcohols, etc.

The primordial Earth was similar to the present Venus or Mars, with a sandy and dusty surface and no water and no oceans. After the raw organic matter is synthesized, it drifts to a cold area, and then it falls on the earth's surface like rain and collects in low-lying places. If these areas have excellent permeability, such as desert areas such as the Middle East and the Caspian Sea, these organic matter will penetrate into the ground and be stored in the pores of the formation, after the nodules of the original organic matter appear, the molecular weight is getting larger and larger, and it has strong viscosity, and generally no longer penetrates into the ground, but stays on the ground, and the sand reacts further to appear diagenesis, forming a hard, dense and non-permeable overburden, trapping the early strata to form the original oil and gas reservoirs.

Let's first look at how oil is formed in the Persian Gulf region of the Middle East. In terms of formation time, it will take at least more than 2 million years to form. At the time, the global geography was not what it is today.

About 100 million years ago, the Earth's land was mainly composed of two parts. The ancient land of Laoya is located in the northern hemisphere, while the Gondwana land in the southern hemisphere faces each other across the Tethys Sea. The Tethys Sea was the "predecessor" of today's Mediterranean.

At that time, the global climate was humid, and the Tethys Sea was located near the equator. It is rich in caloric resources, which is particularly conducive to the growth and reproduction of marine life. Later, due to the disintegration of the Gondwana continent, the plates began to drift.

Finally, the Tethys Sea is surrounded by Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and India, which move northwards and slowly close. The sea is starting to get shallower. Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and other places have become shallow sea environments.

Marine fauna and algae proliferate. After their deaths, these organic materials are mixed with silt and buried under thick sedimentary rocks over a long geological age. It turns into oil after high temperature and high pressure.

In the Quaternary period (about 2 million years ago), when the Himalayan orogeny began, the global climate changed, and the Sahara region of the Middle East and North Africa turned into an arid desert climate under the influence of the subtropical high. Thus, the desert regions of the Middle East that we see today are rich in oil, which was formed a long time ago. Oil first appeared, and later it turned into a desert.

So give us the impression that it is always the desert area that produces oil.

Not only that, but many parts of the world are not desert environments and are rich in oil reserves. For example, in the geological history of the Daqing Oilfield in Northeast China, due to subsidence and seawater intrusion in Northeast China, Northeast China was not as cold as it is today, but the climate was hot and humid, and marine organisms multiplied, providing a good environment for oil production. The same is true of similar Soviet Tyumen and North American fields.

In addition to shallow marine environments, sometimes lactoid sediments also produce oil. The Sichuan Basin in China was a lake basin in ancient geological history. There are many organisms and conditions for oil production.

So far, Sichuan is also a province rich in oil and gas resources in China. According to a recent report, Ordos has also discovered very rich oil and gas resources. There are many lakes in Shanxi and the middle reaches of the Yellow River, which have oil conditions, but there is only the problem of more oil and less oil.

In geological history, shallow marine or lacustrine sedimentary environments were particularly good oil-forming conditions, which has little to do with whether we see deserts today or not.

There is a lot of oil in the desert of our country, why not extract it, but rely on imports?

We know that there are many countries that are competing to exploit their own oil fields, which country has the most abundant oil reserves, almost has a very important strategic resource, and even so, there are many countries in the world that still import the main oil, and for different countries to exploit oil have different plans, then our country according to a long time ago exploration report shows that there are certain oil reserves in the desert area, and now the oil resources will be more reduced every time they are exploitedWhy has the oil in these deserts never been extracted? Could it be that the value of this oil is not as high as elsewhere?

Because everyone can think of the reason, mainly because of the difficulty of mining, you must know that in the desert area not only every day there is a very large sandstorm, but also a very high temperature difference between day and night, so in such a place to mine, the first problem to face is that in the process of mining, it is very likely that these equipment will be filled with sand, and at the same time want to build roads in the desert area, which is also the current technical stage. It may be possible to achieve this goal at some point in the future, but it is still a fantasy at present, so if you want to extract oil in the desert, you must first overcome the problems of transportation and the difficulty of extraction.

Secondly, if you want to mine in the desert, you also need very convenient road transportation, and we know that in the desert is actually driving a very good off-road jeep, and you can't quickly enter and exit the center of the desert in a short time, so if you want to mine oil in these places, you may only be able to use *** to transport, then the cost will be increased to ten or 20 times, and it is obvious that there is not much value in mining here.

First of all, the first point is that oil in the desert is very difficult to find. The desert area of our country is very large, and the environment here is very harsh, although the oil under the desert is relatively abundant, but not every piece of land in the desert area has oil under it. If you want to know where there is oil in the desert, you need to survey it over a long period of time, which is a particularly difficult thing.

It is precisely because of this that it is very difficult to find oil in desert areas, and it cannot be detected, so how can it be extracted?

And then there's the second point, which is that oil in the desert is very difficult to extract. Most of our country's deserts are in the northwest region, where the environment is particularly poor, and extreme weather such as sandstorms often occur. And we also know that most of the sand is quicksand, so desert areas are particularly dangerous places for people, and if people run into the depths of the desert, then they are likely to face a great threat.

If people find oil in the depths of the desert, but it is difficult to stay in such a place, it is especially difficult to extract oil here.

The second and third reason is that oil in the desert is very difficult to transport. We all know that oil, as a liquid, is more difficult to transport. Even if people do extract oil in the desert, it will be very difficult to transport it.

There is no way to build a railway in the desert now, and even if we were to be able to build a railway in the desert in the future, the road to transport oil would be dangerous due to the dust storms that could occur at any time. If it is transported manually, then there is a high chance that you will get lost in the desert.

The last reason is more important, and that is the national strategy. Many experts now say that oil is a non-renewable resource, and it is also a very valuable energy source, and it is equivalent to no longer when it is extracted. Therefore, our country has now implemented a strategy of sustainable development, which is also to maintain ecological balance, so our country chooses to import oil from other countries.

Looking at it now, China does not need to mine oil in the desert, and the oil in the desert has become a strategic reserve.

Oil is a very valuable resource, and it is also a very scarce energy source nowadays, so even if there is a lot of oil in the desert, it cannot be extracted casually.